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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Le marteau sans matre (The hammer without a master) is a composition by the French composer Pierre Boulez. It is a setting of the surrealist poetry of Ren Char for alto and six instrumentalists. It was first performed in 1955. The work has nine movements, four of which set the text of three poems of Ren Char. The remaining movements are instrumental extrapolations of the other four: Before Le Marteau, Boulez had established a reputation as the composer of modernist, and serialist works such as Structures I, and Polyphonie X, as well as his infamously "unplayable" Second Piano Sonata (Jameux 1989b, 21). Le Marteau was first written as a six-movement composition between 1953 and 1954, and was published in that form in the latter year, "imprime pour le festival de musique, 1954, Donaueschingen" (though in the end it was not performed there) in a photographic reproduction of the composer's manuscript by Universal Edition, given the catalog number UE 12362. In 1955, Boulez revised the order of these movements, and interpolated three newly composed ones (Mosch 2004, 4445). The original, six-movement form lacked the two "Bel difice" settings and the third commentaire on "Bourreaux de solitude". In addition, the movements were grouped in two closed cycles: first the three "Artisanat furieux" movements, then the three "Bourreaux de solitude" ones, otherwise in the order of the final score. The first movement, though fundamentally the same composition, was originally scored as a duet for vibraphone and guitarthe flute and viola were added only in the revisionand numerous less significant alterations were made to playing techniques and notation in the other movements (Siegele 1979, 89). It received its premire in 1955 at the 29th Festival of the ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6324602


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156213063
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 73 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156213061
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Le Marteau Sans Matre
  • Width: 229 mm


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